Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2024

Host Institution: University of Birmingham
Coordinating Institution: University of Birmingham
Website: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/events/2024/corpus-linguistics-summer-school-2024

Dates: 15-Jul-2024 - 18-Jul-2024
Location: Online

Focus: Corpus linguistics
Minimum Education Level: Basic understanding of corpus linguistics

Description:
The Centre for Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham is pleased to announce that our Corpus Linguistics Summer School will take place fully online this year on 15–18 July, 2024.
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/events/2024/corpus-linguistics-summer-school-2024

Attendance is open to all on a first-come-first-served basis upon completion of the registration process (including payment) through the university’s online shop linked from the above website.

Please note that we are planning to hold next year's summer school in-person at the University of Birmingham. Therefore, individuals wishing to attend the summer school remotely are encouraged to take advantage of this year's online format.

Registration fee: £80

Speakers:
This year, our participants will have the pleasure to hear contributions by Joyce Lim (Aston University), as well as members of our local staff of corpus linguistics, including Edward Clay, Dagmar Divjak, Jason Grafmiller, Jack Grieve, Nicholas Groom, Petar Milin, Akira Murakami, Michael Oakes, Florent Perek, Adam Schembri, Paul Thompson, and Katharine Weetman, among others.

Dawn Knight will be delivering the annual Sinclair Lecture on Monday, 15 July.

Programme:
Our Corpus Linguistics Summer School aims to equip participants with critical expertise in both the theory and practice of corpus-supported linguistic research. Over the course of four days, participants will be actively involved in two kinds of sessions. First, hands-on sessions will put the emphasis on the learning of practical skills for the purpose of extracting and analysing corpus data of various kinds, and the application of this knowledge to specific research projects. Second, participants will learn about current corpus research from our team.

Topics of sessions will include (this is a non-exhaustive list and subject to change):
- Analysing healthcare data using corpus linguistics
- Analysing learner language
- Behavioral Profile
- Corpora and legal research
- CQPweb
- Fake news
- Introduction to R
- Phraseology
- Sign language corpora
- Statistics and readability
- Tagging and parsing with spaCy
- Topic models

For more information and registration, please visit the website below:
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/events/2024/corpus-linguistics-summer-school-2024

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): British Sign Language (bfi)
English (eng)

Tuition: 80.0 GBP

Registration Open until 30-Jun-2024

Apply on the web: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/events/2024/corpus-linguistics-summer-school-2024

Registration Instructions:
Please register from our website: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/events/2024/corpus-linguistics-summer-school-2024